That's what happens when you build your railway through the dead centre of town.
@wta1518
3 ай бұрын
Leave
@rogerakhan74
3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@YetAnotherGeorgeth
3 ай бұрын
I see what you did there
@metropod
3 ай бұрын
(Rimshot)
@aminataykanu
3 ай бұрын
Get your coat! You're leaving!
@romulusnr
3 ай бұрын
"enough dead people to make even Bruce Campbell think twice" is an underrated line
@mcstraw1209
2 ай бұрын
My favourite
@PokhrajRoy.
3 ай бұрын
“…but it was hardly a grave matter…” (Standing ovation)
@nicktecky55
3 ай бұрын
Boom... boom! (RIP Basil)
@rogerakhan74
3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@dangerousandy
3 ай бұрын
He was dying to say that
@comicus01
3 ай бұрын
Super obvious, but a good one
@tonguepiercing
3 ай бұрын
‘Dead and the underground have a long association’ … yes indeed
@JonWisbey
3 ай бұрын
If I ever get around to making a British Victorian zombie flick, this tale will be the starting point
@Shalott63
3 ай бұрын
I'm surprised it's not yet made it into an episode of Dr Who.
@roderickjoyce6716
3 ай бұрын
@@Shalott63 Some of the people behind Dr Who created another TV series called Adam Adamant. On 29th September 1966 an episode called "Ticket to Terror" was watched by twelve-year-old me. $00 passengers disappear from a Waterloo & City train which rolls into Bank (I think) full of skeletons... I can't remember the plot, but the W&C train full of skeletons even in 405-line black & white was quite impressive.
@juliansadler6263
3 ай бұрын
Seen Death Line (1972)? Not quite zombies but near enough. Inbred descendants of workmen trapped in a collapse still hunting for victims to eat.
@Shalott63
3 ай бұрын
@@roderickjoyce6716 Yikes, that sounds scary! Thanks for this little snippet. I'll try to look up Adam Adamant (and I'll see whether it asks me whether I mean Adam and the Ants ...).
@graham5670
3 ай бұрын
@@Shalott63 Does anyone remember a horror film from , I think, the 70's called Deadline. It had to do with some Victorian railway workers who were thought lost after an accident but carried on living behind the walls of the Tube, occasionally emerging to snatch some poor commuter for lunch?
@crispoman
3 ай бұрын
I am impressed at how your delivery stayed Deadpan throughout - I'm certain I would've corpsed.
@jexjexjex
3 ай бұрын
"Death and the Underground" would also be a great name for a metal band...
@brj_han
3 ай бұрын
How about "Jago Hazzard"? 😁
@cd0u50c9
3 ай бұрын
My vote goes to Vault Miasma.
@vladimirarnost8020
2 ай бұрын
"Mind the Dead"
@mickeydodds1
3 ай бұрын
I see Jago has been boning up with his Metropolitan Line history.
@eastlancsesteem
3 ай бұрын
ba-dum-tss 🥁
@alanmoss3603
3 ай бұрын
Vault of Skeletons was the name of our college 'Goth Boy Band' - a cross between Bauhaus and One Direction! It's a real shame the whole Goth Boy Band thing never caught on!
@simontempleknight3826
3 ай бұрын
unlike black baby metal.... chortle ! Ya need to be more korean...
@oc2phish07
3 ай бұрын
I use the Metropolitan Line, and Farringdon Station regularly but will never do so without thinking of this video now. Thanks Jago. 😂
@davidpierce3217
3 ай бұрын
Jago's puns killing it today
@General_Confusion
3 ай бұрын
Being poor in London and then suddenly finding yourself dead, is not necessarily a step up on the career ladder.
@joshuabessire9169
3 ай бұрын
At least now you could sleep laying down.
@Shalott63
3 ай бұрын
Arguable ...
@althejazzman
3 ай бұрын
I'm interested as to how you would "find yourself dead" ?
@PokhrajRoy.
3 ай бұрын
Expression: “..skeletons in the closet.” Metropolitan Line: “We have some and it’s more spacious than a closet.”
@PhillipBicknell
3 ай бұрын
When the Bank extension of the DLR was tunnelled in the 1990s, it fractured a nearby sewer, which duly created a bit of a stink. My test equipment got to ride down on a flatbed truck. I had the dubious pleasure of walking down the tunnel to conduct commissioning tests on the fire systems at the station. It was a case of gingerly easing past the 210 litre plastic drum that was sitting on the walkway gently filling and stewing!
@katyayris1309
2 ай бұрын
Well that makes sense because Bank station stinks, in a different way to the rest of the central line.
@Shalott63
3 ай бұрын
Perhaps they should have renamed it the Necropolitan Railway.
@eastlancsesteem
3 ай бұрын
😂
@elkippy
2 ай бұрын
forbidden icecream
@666pablohetfield
3 ай бұрын
"enough dead people on the tunnel to make even Bruce Campbell think twice" ... Groovy
@JohnDavies-cn3ro
3 ай бұрын
Sorry - who's Bruce Campbell?
@666pablohetfield
3 ай бұрын
@@JohnDavies-cn3ro he plays Ash Williams in the evil dead franchise
@darkchia00
3 ай бұрын
@@JohnDavies-cn3ro B list actor know for horror projects. Ash from Evil Dead/Army of Darkness being his biggest genre role. He also played the King of Thieves in the Hercules/Xena shows, Sam Axe in Burn Notice tv show, and the title character on the show The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. Being best friends with Director Sam Raimi means he's had a small part in most of his movies, including the wrestling ring announcer in Spider-Man and Pizza Poppa in Doctor Strange 2.
@PokhrajRoy.
3 ай бұрын
2:54 🎵It’s a murder of human dignity on the dance floor you better not kill the groove🎵
@dodgydruid
3 ай бұрын
My old man was with the BR teams when they opened up by accident the bottom of a Newgate prison charnel pit in Snow Hill tunnel, dirt and filth, bones and skulls came a tumbling out and everyone was screaming they were gonna get the plague, he stopped doing the extra duties after that lol He was on the signalling team as he was one of the last Loughborough Junc passed out signalmen as well as Blackfriars before they were displaced, his unnatural knowledge of just about every train working in and around there was put to good use as winding in and out the Thameslinks into two ferociously busy main lines was a train pathing nightmare but somehow he managed to make it all work for BR to go ahead on those base operations but skulls and bones weren't in the job description lol
@markiangooley
3 ай бұрын
Buying more land than needed and then reselling the surplus once you’ve rendered it more valuable by providing transportation: that’s how many American railways made solid profits. In fact, that seems to be the idea behind making the Brightline passenger rail in Florida profitable.
@mooglesmodelrailways
3 ай бұрын
I like the suggestion of Vault of 12000 corpses as a metal band name! 🤟
@thadsoule7129
3 ай бұрын
Farringdon was the nail in the coffin for the Metropolitan Line
@eastlancsesteem
3 ай бұрын
😂
@timhubbard8895
3 ай бұрын
As you said Jago, it was a grave matter! 🤣
@Roland-pw5xj
3 ай бұрын
Novelist and poet Thomas Hardy is said to have supervised the mass exhumation necessitated by the construction of new railway lines close to St Pancras Old Church whilst working for an architectural practice. This gave rise to the legend that he arranged some old headstones that were stacked against each other in a circle around an ash tree. It became known as The Hardy Tree. In fact a photo dating back to the 1920s, showing children playing on the stones, with no tree in evidence, tells us the tree must grown up from amongst those already arranged stones. The tree fell on the night of boxing day 2022, but can still be seen lying on its side, with chunks of stone embedded in its roots.
@rachelwalker7091
3 ай бұрын
A macabre and dramatic tale conjuring up images of the dead bursting forth into the tube. Great story telling Jago.
@AusEdge
3 ай бұрын
🤘Vault Of Twelve Thousand Corpses 🤘
@Julius_Hardware
3 ай бұрын
Jago Hazzard was a 70s prog band. I remember seeing them at Glastonbury, including a legenday 35 minute flute solo.
@backwashjoe7864
3 ай бұрын
Their second album is called Strewn Bones!
@theenigmaticst7572
3 ай бұрын
Featuring the hit single "Dead Line"
@roberthuron9160
3 ай бұрын
When the Tremont Street Subway was built in Boston,there were two major cemeteries on the route,some 900 bodies,were relocated! Also when the Subway in New York,was being built,there were cemeteries,in both Manhattan and Brooklyn! Greenwood Cemetery is one of those relocation areas,from earlier building operations! Lots of gory,and not so gory,Victorian history,on both sides of the pond! Happy Father's Day,Jago,and a most interesting commentary,on a morbid subject! Thank you 😇 😊!
@1575murray
3 ай бұрын
When the IND was built the 207th St. shop complex occupied an area that had been an ancient burial ground. The remains were transferred to Woodlawn Cemetery and an appropriate monument installed there.
@agl1138
3 ай бұрын
This is an oddly hilarious video, considering the subject matter
@glynwelshkarelian3489
3 ай бұрын
You caught the back of the block with the Betsey Trotwood at 03:18 . Good, Shepherd Neame, pub. The whole area is described in Dickens' Oliver Twist, including Saffron Hill, site of Fagin's training school.
@gsygsy
3 ай бұрын
'Hardly a grave matter' 😂
@highpath4776
3 ай бұрын
Deadpan delivery when mentioning the Fleet is best.
@fintytin5771
3 ай бұрын
You would think that when you was dead they'd leave you alone !!
@stephenspackman5573
3 ай бұрын
“They're removing Grandpa's grave to build a sewer. They're removing it regardless of expense. …”
@dennishayden6040
3 ай бұрын
@@stephenspackman5573 A Peter Sellers record from the 1960's. Very appropriate. My mate had a copy of it.
@crossleydd42
3 ай бұрын
Make no bones about it, this was an excellent video!
@MichaelCampin
3 ай бұрын
My grandparents are interred in Manor Park Cemetery for which I still hold the deeds, there used to be a necropolois railway within its environs many many moons ago
@tonys1636
3 ай бұрын
A case of graveous bodily harm.
@nigelcole1936
3 ай бұрын
On seeing the title I thought this video might be a grave error but on watching it thought it was dead good - thanks Jago.
@Damien.D
3 ай бұрын
Imagine crowds dressed in victorian clothes riding an open carriage steam train in a tunnel with hundreds of coffins laying by the track to go to the Dancing On The Dead concert venue. What seems like a gothic horror movie of today's is just the Metropolitan Line opening ceremony of 1863.
@johnm2012
3 ай бұрын
Below Ray Street bridge is Ray Street gridiron, which carries the Metropolitan line over the Thameslink tracks (originally the City Widened Lines).
@LewisSkinner
3 ай бұрын
"Incursion of the Deceased" will be my first movie
@alejandrayalanbowman367
3 ай бұрын
Good evening Jago from sunny Spain. When you started, I thought this was going to be another episode of Quatermass and the Pit (fantastic if you have never watched it) I saw it when it was originally shown late at night - scary!
@AdamDTaylor
3 ай бұрын
When building a new station, Farringdon is a prime example of what NOT to do.
@robertb7918
3 ай бұрын
Another example of the use of the drawing shown at 1:21. This was made by the artist as a warning about the possible future horrors of urban life - if you look closely at the whole thing there are details that don't look quite right. I first saw it in a children's history book in the sixties and it has since been used many times as if it was a contemporary illustration of a real scene.
@tadcastertory1087
3 ай бұрын
There were similar problems at York when they were constructing the station. York has a large number of churches and the building cut through at least one graveyard. There is a small remnant of a cemetary across the road from the station, which was also disturbed. Its gravestones tell us that the inhabitants succumbed to typhoid. York within the wall was filthy in the 19th century.
@paulqueripel3493
3 ай бұрын
Bodies had to be complete, but the bones weren't always stored together. Come the day, there was going to chaos as skulls roamed the charnel house, trying to find their necks, and tibias searching for the correct fibulas etc.
@JohnDavies-cn3ro
3 ай бұрын
You've hit it in one Paul. I'm a Christian believer myself, but simply cannot accept the ignorence which lay behind so many of these ideas. What about those who died at sea (whose remains dissolve) or the classic charnel houses you refer to? It seems the 'theologians' never thought the thing through to its logical conclusion.......
@asldkjaslkdj
3 ай бұрын
Crossbones Graveyard is at London Bridge and was used for Jubilee line extension works. The grey hoardings saying 'Jubilee line extension' were still there until about 15 years ago...
@philiptaylor7902
3 ай бұрын
Should have saved this one for Halloween.
@davidsummer8631
3 ай бұрын
Florin Court in Charterhouse Square was used as the location of Poirot's London residence in the TV series and Poirot is a individual who has had experience of a corpse or two
@Roland-pw5xj
3 ай бұрын
Chartehouse Square has long been said to be the site of a plague pit, and during the Crossrail (i.e. Elizabeth Line) construction work, thirteen skeletons dating back to the fourteenth century were discovered there.
@michaelkinsey4649
3 ай бұрын
So "Into the cut'n'cover trench of death dug the 600..."
@RightAwayProductions005
3 ай бұрын
I love how you uploaded a video with that kind of intro… the day my sister moves into her new place
@sandrabennett6166
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for the video so nice to hear how the London underground was installed ❤
@paullaw1438
3 ай бұрын
Gives a new meaning to ‘gravy train’…
@SamLowryDZ-015
3 ай бұрын
Makes 'Death Line' seem quite tame by comparison.
@davidmatthews7876
3 ай бұрын
Excellent video
@clickrick
3 ай бұрын
"hardly a grave matter" Oh dear, Jago, oh dear. You should lay this punning to rest.
@Saint_Dan132
3 ай бұрын
ha, x
@AaronOfMpls
3 ай бұрын
Eh, he can keep going; it's not like I'm dead tired of it yet.
@robfinch1522
3 ай бұрын
@@AaronOfMpls Yes, mustn`t crumble....
@graham5670
3 ай бұрын
As always, entertaining and informing. Thank you for your hard work.
@lordmuntague
3 ай бұрын
@2:56 "Vault of 20,000 Corpses" sounds like typical juke box fare in The Swan on Wood Street, Liverpool. Kind of like Accept or Iron Maiden, the sort of thing me and my mate would be dabbing a tear from our eyes to and saying "Aaahh, they just don't write slushy romantic songs like this anymore..." as we daintily sip another pint of Marston's Owd Rodger.
@1234j
3 ай бұрын
Oooh, this will do nicely while I cook.😂❤
@teecefamilykent
3 ай бұрын
Those puns are criminal sir, criminal I say! Brilliant tho.
@UK.RoadsCyclingandTransport
3 ай бұрын
"Hardly a grave matter" you have a way with words Jago😂 well played
@MrCherryJuice
3 ай бұрын
Surely a video on the London Necropolis Railway and line down to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey is due after this. It might also answer the question of where all those disintered coffins ended up.
@iankemp1131
3 ай бұрын
Mentioning Smithfield (0:55) reminds me of We'll Meat Again, surely Jago's finest exercise in non-stop punnery. See it if you haven't already!
@robertward7449
3 ай бұрын
Another great Jago video! And one that would make a great scenario for a zombie movie...
@asheland_numismatics
3 ай бұрын
Very interesting one!
@paintedpilgrim
3 ай бұрын
Well Jago, the puns in this one made me nearly choke on my coffee "hardly a grave matter!" saw it come out my nose
@mkendallpk4321
3 ай бұрын
This was a very grave matter. In fact, it stunk! But, your video came out smelling like roses. 😄
@phaasch
3 ай бұрын
Like a Victorian version of the swimming pool scene in "Poltergeist" superb!
@bostonrailfan2427
3 ай бұрын
credit to your thesaurus for assisting you with this project, your pun game is strong with this one
@Ensign_Cthulhu
3 ай бұрын
Is this Tales from the Tube, or Tales from the Crypt?
@jgodfrey546
3 ай бұрын
Fascinating , Jago. ...& people think transit projects cost an arm & a leg these days...
@757Spy
2 ай бұрын
Totally digging that "grave matter" line!
@keith800
3 ай бұрын
So interesting I have always found the area of Farringdon fascinating and steeped in history as not quite London nor the East end but a unique area in itself.
@Thornaby37
3 ай бұрын
Make no bones about it, that was an interesting spooky story 🤣
@cossie6824
3 ай бұрын
Incursion of the deceased would also make a fantastic metal band name!!!
@fosterfuchs
3 ай бұрын
Someone should, just for fun, make a pocket Tube map that shows the "London Underground" when it first opened. Same graphics and font as today's Tube map, but with only one line and 7 stations.
@robertwilloughby8050
3 ай бұрын
Oh, Jago, won't you have fun when you do one of your regional videos and it's the connection between Leeds City station and Leeds Marsh Lane... Let us put it this way, your peaceful grave is now a railway embankment, and your mortal remains are in it! There's headstones on one side of the embankment, roughly, very roughly where your original grave was. 😅
@PaddyWV
3 ай бұрын
That was dead interesting Uncle Jago! Thanks!
@grahambaker7563
3 ай бұрын
Always find your videos both enjoyable and entertaining, Jago! 👍👍
@RichardFelstead1949
3 ай бұрын
Likewise.
@paulbennett772
3 ай бұрын
Naughty naughty! Including a pic of Manchester!
@BulletNoseBetty
3 ай бұрын
Proof that building a railway can turn out to be a grave undertaking.
@alejandrayalanbowman367
3 ай бұрын
Good evening Jago from sunny Spain. I was half expecting another episode of the BBC series about Quatermass - probably before your time. If I remember correctly (in the region of 70 years ago) they were digging a new underground station and came across a Martian space ship that had crash landed
@LesD9
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for that comment. I never did understand what that programme was all about!
@hairyairey
3 ай бұрын
We never did find out which station it was - Southgate perhaps?
@brianartillery
3 ай бұрын
Have you read 'Necropolis', by Katharine Arnold? A truly fascinating, horrifying, and disgusting history of London and it's dead. I thoroughly recommend it. It's superbly researched, beautifully written, and unputdownably horrid.
@nmarks
3 ай бұрын
Scooby Doo Mystery!
@Diptera_Larvae
3 ай бұрын
I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for this meddling Jago!
@ugiswrong
3 ай бұрын
Mind the Zoinks
@baystated
3 ай бұрын
The Bruce Campbell reference.
@wyldemusick
3 ай бұрын
There's already the very metal ...And You Shall Know Me By The Trail Of Dead.
@biscuitty
3 ай бұрын
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead. Fun band, who would have guessed they were named after the Metropolitan Line?
@jimmeade2976
3 ай бұрын
What a great Father's Day video.
@Foebane72
3 ай бұрын
I love these sorts of stories, really appeals to my sense of black humour!
@PokhrajRoy.
3 ай бұрын
Honestly, love this video because the subject matter is so Victorian gothic I LOVE IT
@AmirAhmed-j9x
3 ай бұрын
I was on a jags binge and this just pops up- thanks
@MrBozack
3 ай бұрын
You made me frantically wipe my monitor screen at 4:59-5:06
@stevebradley704
3 ай бұрын
Love that intro........BAMM! Vault of skeletons!😅
@markrochford897
3 ай бұрын
I loved this and the amount of research you must do
@seanbonella
3 ай бұрын
JAGO on a father's day
@barneypaws4883
3 ай бұрын
Sounds like a tale Russel T Davies could be interested in.
@grateberk6435
3 ай бұрын
Splendid!
@teenoso4069
3 ай бұрын
Enon Chapel is now the site of the LSE - a place I visit regularly
@elainemulberryrat5300
3 ай бұрын
Very interesting. More grisly tales on the railways pr tube please 😅
@IambiguousSegment
3 ай бұрын
YERKEES
@EstOptimusNobis
3 ай бұрын
The surveyors must have used dead reckoning to lay out the line. ☠
@MrGreatplum
3 ай бұрын
Well, that was quite a grave tale…
@PokhrajRoy.
3 ай бұрын
2:58 You’re so real for this
@Andrewjg_89
3 ай бұрын
Interesting to know about Skeletons on the Metropolitan Line. Maybe there could be skeletons on other tube lines.
@comicus01
3 ай бұрын
Jago: you are the cholera epidemic to my miasma. Thanks!
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